Values in Placido Costanzi rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Placido Costanzi keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #96743D, is reserved to 4.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 48 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette is recognisably Placido Costanzi's own: particular in its temperature, chroma, and the economy of its brightest note.